Dirk Elewaut

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Ghent, Belgium

EDUCATION:
• Bachelor of Medicine granted by the State University of Ghent, Belgium, July 13, 1987; magna cum laude
• Legal degree of Doctor of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics granted by the State University of Ghent, Belgium, July 1, 1991; maxima cum laude PhD thesis
• Legal degree of Doctor in the Medical Sciences (PhD), maxima cum laude, granted by the State University of Ghent, Belgium, December 10, 1997
• 1991-1997 Resident in Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium
• 1993-1997 Graduate Student in the Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium
• Feb-March 1996 Visiting fellow at the Laboratory for Rheumatology, Rheumatology Division, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
• 1997-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA
• 1998-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, USA

MEMBERSHIPS:
• 2004-2007 Member, EULAR Standing Committee on Paediatric Rheumatology
• 2006-present Member, Paediatric Rheumatology INternational Trials Organisation (Printo)
• 2005-present Ad hoc Scientific Advisor European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
• 2000-present Member, American Association of Immunologists
• 2007-present Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS)

AWARDS:
• 1991 First Specia-price (best study records of the Faculty of Medicine), University Ghent, Belgium
• 1992 Annual Price from the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
• 1995 Annual Research Award from the Belgian Rheumatology Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
• 1996 Poster award at the International Congress on Immuno-intervention, Rome, Italy
• 1997 Poster award at the First Belgian Congress on Rheumatology, Antwerp, Belgium
• 1997 Annual award of the Belgian Rheumatology Foundation and Rotary award for the improvement of quality of life for patients with chronic rheumatic diseases, Brussels, Belgium
• 1999 NATO Award, Brussels, Belgium
• 2000 Young IBD Investigator Award of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, USA
• 2001 Travel Award, National Arthritis Foundation, USA
• 2002 Junior Faculty Member of the EULAR-ACR academic exchange programme
• 2004 Speaker award, 3rd CD1 & NKT cell workshop, Heron Island, Australia
• 2009 Academy of Immunology for Clinicians Award – Rheumatology
• 2009 Pfizer Award for pathofysiology in human disease
• 2010 Inbev-Baillet Latour Prize for Clinical Science

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